reconcile starting balance

[ssc1478]

Thanks for the reply.  I ran the reset warnings option, and it told me
I had none to reset.  I made adjustments to balance the account, and
I'll keep a closer eye on what I am doing to see if I can figure out
what I am doing to screw things up.

Thanks again!


On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> Most likely the balance is off because previously reconciled transactions
> either got deleted or unreconciled.  The way to move forward is to ignore
> the starting balance and mark off all the current transactions and all the
> ones that should have already been reconciled but somehow got unmarked.
> Another thing you should do is run Actions -> Reset Warnings because you
> probably told GnuCash to allow you to modify reconciled transactions without
> warnings.
> Unfortunately this approach won't help if you actually deleted transactions
> or moved them to another account by accident.  If that happened you will
> need to go back in history to figure out what happened, or try going to your
> backup files.
> Good luck.
>
> -derek
>
> Sent from my HTC smartphone
>
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "ssc1478" <ssc1478 at aim.com>
> To: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: reconcile starting balance
> Date: Tue, Jan 1, 2013 2:55 PM
>
>
> An issue just came up where the reconcile Starting Balance isn't the
> same as the Ending Balance from the month before.  I hope someone can
> help me!
>
> The most important question I have is how can I fix it?  I've never
> had this problem before.
>
> I have also noticed this year (I think since upgrading to the version
> that comes with Ubuntu 12.04) that previously reconciled items, just a
> few, are showing up as unreconciled.  These items could be from years
> ago.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
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